Wilson warms up in style
RuSPORT's Justin Wilson bounced back from a slightly disappointing qualifying session to top the warm-up times for tomorrow's Grand Prix of Portland
The race warm-up was held this evening due to a new noise-limit regulation for Sunday mornings. But as Newman/Haas Racing Sebastien Bourdais mentioned, aside from it being extra hard work for the mechanics to make the change from qualifying set-up to race set-up in just two hours between qualifying and warm-up, in fact the change in timing has worked in their favour.
Most believe the Portland track conditions in warm-up will be far more representative of the track conditions in the race tomorrow.
However, the track was so crowded in the 30-minute session - frequently with 16 of the 18 cars on track simultaneously - that the relevance of lap times is open to question, especially given that no team know how much fuel another team are running.
For the record, Bourdais was about a tenth of a second shy of Wilson's time, while Oriol Servia of PKV Racing bounced back from his two shunts this weekend to set third fastest time on the fourth of his 21 laps.
Wilson's teammate Cristiano da Matta was fourth, just ahead of pole-sitter Bruno Junqueira, while Dan Clarke continued his impressive form here to go seventh fastest, just behind Forsythe Championship Racing's AJ Allmendinger.
Paul Tracy had a spin and was only ninth fastest.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Justin Wilson RuSPORT 1:00.096 20 2. Sebastien Bourdais Newman Haas 1:00.160 + 0.064 23 3. Oriol Servia PKV 1:00.335 + 0.239 21 4. Cristiano da Matta RuSPORT 1:00.383 + 0.287 20 5. Bruno Junqueira Newman Haas 1:00.604 + 0.508 28 6. A.J. Allmendinger Forsythe 1:00.612 + 0.516 20 7. Dan Clarke CTE HVM 1:00.784 + 0.688 26 8. Alex Tagliani Team Australia 1:00.819 + 0.723 20 9. Paul Tracy Forsythe 1:01.041 + 0.945 17 10. Nelson Philippe CTE HVM 1:01.085 + 0.989 16 11. Andrew Ranger Mi-Jack Conquest 1:01.102 + 1.006 20 12. Nicky Pastorelli Rocketsports 1:01.125 + 1.029 22 13. Katherine Legge PKV 1:01.254 + 1.158 20 14. Charles Zwolsman Mi-Jack Conquest 1:01.286 + 1.190 20 15. Will Power Team Australia 1:01.586 + 1.490 19 16. Mario Dominguez Dale Coyne 1:01.945 + 1.849 16 17. Tonis Kasemets Rocketsports 1:02.094 + 1.998 17 18. Jan Heylen Dale Coyne 1:02.264 + 2.168 12
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